Dariush Borbor

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In 1961, he returned to Tehran as Deputy Technical Director of Iran-Rah, the largest Construction Co. of its time in Iran. In 1963, he created his own firm under the name of Borbor Consulting Architects, Engineers, City Planners. As President and managing director, he developed and expanded the business to a large multidisciplinary organization with several in-house departments which included: architecture, urban planning, environment, structure, mechanics, electricity and interior design. The firm employed a large number of highly qualified multi-national staff and included branch offices in several major cities in Iran.

A few months prior to the 1978 Iranian Islamic Revolution, Borbor moved to Paris, France where he founded the Borbor International Management Consultants (BIMC) to Architects, Engineers, Planners. BIMC offered consultancy services in design, management and documentation to architectural and planning firms. In 1984, he moved to Los Angeles where he was involved in some architectural consultancy and research on Iranian and Persianate subjects.

Borbor returned to Iran in 1991 and established the Research Institute and Library of Iranian Studies (RILIS), a non-profit, non-political, private and independent institution dedicated to the promotion of research in the field of Iranian and Persianate studies with special emphasis on novel and creative research. He is a Consultant and active contributor to the Encyclopædia Iranica.

• 1958, Working Drawing Award, Architects' Journal, London, UK"This years' competition winners", The Architects' Journal, July 25, 1957, p. 130.
• 1959, First Prize, ideas competition for a Liverpool neighbourhood, Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool, UK"Liverpool Reconstruction Scheme", The Town Planning Review, vol. XXX, no. 1, Liverpool University Press, April 1959, Liverpool, plates 2–3.
• 1965, First Prize, design of Persian Pavilion, Los Angeles
• 1975, Gold Mercury International Award for project management, Rome, Italy"Borbor Consulting Architects Presented with International Gold Mercury Award from Italy", Tehran Journal, Tehran, December 22, 1976, p. 2.
• 1976, NIOC Award, seaside resort, Mahmoudabad, Caspian coast, Iran
• 1976, First Prize, 2200-unit shopping mall (Bazaar Reza, ) in Mashhad, Iran
• 1976, First Prize, monument, Mashhad, Iran.
• 1977, First Prize, Temple of the Grand Lodge of Iran, Tehran, Iran.
• 1978, Pahlavi Royal Award, for design, construction and management, 2200-unit shopping mall (Bazaar Reza) in record eleven months"Design Prize", Tehran Journal, Tehran, September 7, 1976, p. 3.
• 1988, 50 Outstanding Architects of the World, the Second Belgrade Triennial of World ArchitectureKarolina Udovički; Aca Arsenijević; Milan Bosnić; Milan Kopanja; Ivica Mladenović, Drugi beogradski trijenale svetske arhitekture: 50 = The Second Belgrade Triennial of World Architecture: 50: Beogradski sajam, hala 2, 4–12 juni/June 1988, Savez arhitekata, Beogard, 1988.
• 2020, Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)''[1]
• 2021, Dariush Borbor in the EduRank 100 Notable alumni of University of Liverpool. https://edurank.org/uni/university-of-liverpool/alumni/
• 2022, Dariush Borbor ranked as one of the most influential academic alumni of the University of Liverpool. https://academicinfluence.com/schools/university-liverpool/
• 2023, University of Liverpool 2023 Alumni Award.

• 1967, The Ice Palace recreation centre, Pahlavi Avenue, Tehran Kayhan International, May 15, 1967, p. 2.
• 1971, Monument Mashhad (demolished in 2010)
• 1976, Museum and library, Mashhad, Iran"Museum and Library for Islamic Art and Books – Mashhad, Iran", Architecture Contemporaine, vol. 5, Editions Anthony Krafft, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1983, pp. 225–228.

• 1963–1966, Nowshahr-Chalus Regional Plan
• 1964–1965, Caspian Coast Regional Plan
• 1969–1973, Abadan-Khoramshahr Regional Plan

• 1968, Project for the urban renewal of Mashhad City Centre"Has Religion a Future" Encyclopedia of Urban Planning|editor=Arnold Whittick|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|year=1974|pages=565–67
• 1968, Kakhk post-earthquake reconstruction Kayhan International, November 14, 1968, p. 3.
• 1976, Bazaar Reza shopping mall, Mashhad

• Dariush Borbor, Majlis: Teheran, Iran, University of Liverpool, Google Books, Liverpool, 1958.
• "The Influence of Persian Gardens on Islamic Decoration", Architecture Formes Fonctions, vol. 14, ed. Anthony Krafft, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1968, pp. 84–91.
• D.Bourbour Borbor, Projet de Rénovation de Haram Hazrat-e-Reza à Meched, A.A. Honar va Me'mari, Tehran, 1972.
• "Iran", The Encyclopedia of Urban Planning, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1974, pp. 553–567.
• "The Influence of Wine Culture in Iranian Architecture and the Region", Wine Culture in Iran and Beyond, Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenchaften (ÖAW) / Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 2014, pp.  259–275.
• Dariush Borbor, Dariush Borbor Compendium of Articles, Presentations and Interviews 1954-2018, Sahab Geographic & Drafting Institute, Tehran, 2018.
• Dariush Borbor, Analytical Comparative Etymological Dictionary of Reduplication in the Major Languages of the Middle East and Iran, Oxford, 2023.